Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, Albert Park, 2018

2018 Australian Grand Prix race result

2018 Australian Grand Prix

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Pos#DriverCarLapsTime/gapDifferenceReason
15Sebastian VettelFerrari581hr 29m 33.283s
244Lewis HamiltonMercedes585.0365.036
37Kimi RaikkonenFerrari586.3091.273
43Daniel RicciardoRed Bull-TAG Heuer587.0690.760
514Fernando AlonsoMcLaren-Renault5827.88620.817
633Max VerstappenRed Bull-TAG Heuer5828.9451.059
727Nico HulkenbergRenault5832.6713.726
877Valtteri BottasMercedes5834.3391.668
92Stoffel VandoorneMcLaren-Renault5834.9210.582
1055Carlos Sainz JnrRenault5845.72210.801
1111Sergio PerezForce India-Mercedes5846.8171.095
1231Esteban OconForce India-Mercedes5860.27813.461
1316Charles LeclercSauber-Ferrari5875.75915.481
1418Lance StrollWilliams-Mercedes5878.2882.529
1528Brendon HartleyToro Rosso-Honda571 lap1 lap
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8Romain GrosjeanHaas-Ferrari2434 laps33 lapsWheel
20Kevin MagnussenHaas-Ferrari2236 laps2 lapsWheel
10Pierre GaslyToro Rosso-Honda1345 laps9 lapsPower unit
9Marcus EricssonSauber-Ferrari553 laps8 lapsHydraulics
35Sergey SirotkinWilliams-Mercedes454 laps1 lapBrakes

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26 comments on “2018 Australian Grand Prix race result”

  1. Really bored of seeing cars half a second+ faster but unable to overtake.

  2. A deja-vu regarding last season’s edition to some extent.

  3. The real party was on Sunday and Seb was the best dancer.

    Sorry Hamster!

    1. Yes Seb was truely better. 🙄

  4. Where are those mocking McLaren for dropping Honda now after they “fixed” their reliability by pounding round in testing? 1/2 a race and 1 power unit down already for the mighty Honda!

    1. Alonso was great but arguably McLaren are the slowest Renault team at the moment. STR are just a moving test bed, Hartley after the last test thought points were possible therefore they didn’t think they were going to be quick, McLaren on the other hand thought q3 was theirs.
      Mercedes are so quick, a lot quicker than Melbourne last year, maybe not as much as they wanted, RB are slower than they thought and Ferrari are as usual well prepared for the start of the season but they tend to fade. Ham’s pace on dirty air and his top speed with no DRS was mega. When Ham gets the tyres right, they are quick on all corners but I suspect the Merc again, is not the best on aero, it’s just a really really good chassis.

      1. you cant trust a word Mclaren say in the press, everything is preplanned by their marketing people. It´s worthless, the only way to judge Mclaren is by their performance, not what they say to the media.

        This is doubly true in testing.

  5. For the douted driver of a generation Max drove like rookie very disappointing.

    1. @nosehair He has always looked impervious to pressure, not today. Max outsmarted at the start, then pushed too hard. I think many people forget that Max takes risks, often it backfires.

      1. He rarely makes mistakes though so it’s hard to remember the few he makes vs the glut of awesome moves he comes out with. Bad day at the office.

      2. Max just mentioned the car had something break off it after four laps which caused his..though l thought the team said the spin caused the damage?

    2. @nosehair @peartree @9chris9 I wonder how much is of that is due to pressure from the team. You could see for several laps that he was pushing too hard, yet the team only pressured him into overtaking Magnussen as fast as possible.

      1. hard to remember? @9chris9 his starts are either brilliant or a crash. In his defence, he could have damage from qualifying or from previous corners. @paeschli Remember that time Max said he didn’t want to settle for 4th. I think both knew that not moving in front of Magnussen meant their strategy was not going to work.

  6. It seems like this year is even worse for overtaking, cars struggling even to stay close. Alonso was holding back Verstappen, and Hulkenberg holding Bottas. Not a good sign.

    1. Ernesto Patacsil Jr.
      25th March 2018, 22:14

      Isn’t that nice in a way? DRS has made overtaking so ridiculous. Its also down to the track. Its nice seeing the status quo finishing a bit out of order. I hate seeing a top car struggle or start from the back and still end up on the podium or top 6, its sickening.

  7. McLaren already as good in their first race with Renault as they ever where with Honda points wise.

    1. @unitedkingdomracing They had a 5th with Honda, now they have a 5th with Renault, it’s just the first race, maybe they’ll do better or not.

      1. @peartree Yes but I was more talking about the overall result of both cars. The never achieved more points in total in a race during the honda years and it’s still early days for the renault partnership

        1. @unitedkingdomracing I guess you’re right. This season they might bridge the gap between top 3 and midfield, hopefully.

  8. I felt Rosberg was always alert during the VSC, he normally got the jump on someone, always! and so does Vettel, I can’t get my head around VSC but someone on Hams end doesn’t understand it, and I’m not trying to bash Ham but the confusion after Monaco 15 and Today is astounding considering in Monaco 15 Hamilton was the one in the pits, the track is shorter but still, anyway I highly doubt it will happen again on his part.

    1. Ernesto Patacsil Jr.
      25th March 2018, 22:57

      Ham is undoubtedly one of the fastest, if not the best qualifier in F1 but he would be lost at times during the race without the team’s guidance. All the guy knows is push like hell but his mental “toughness” and intelligence regarding strategy is lacking. Vettel (whom I don’t like being an Alonso fan) even bests Ham there I’d say. Luckily for him and most others, the team is there to guide but I wish they weren’t. Let the drivers be alone on Sunday (aside from mechanics), oh, how I’d love that. Then we’d have a true driver’s championship. Its bad enough when a team’s design dominates but I abhor how they manage the race from pitwall and even huge amounts of people off-site doing race calculations. This and the conservation and being “green” needs stop as F1 needs unpredictability and more variables!

  9. What is a Sauber doing ahead of a Williams?! Oh man.

    1. What is Williams doing behind Sauber? This is the question.

  10. This doesn’t seem to conform to the official race result (or the race summary). The gaps are wrong and Hulkenberg should be ahead of Bottas, and Sainz ahead of Perez.

  11. @keithcollantine the order is wrong

  12. @keithcollantine Mistakes in the results. You have Ricciardo as third?

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